Counselling
We offer counselling support to individuals and couples at all stages of their relationship and parenthood journey – before and after babies.
Are you expecting a baby and feeling anxious about how you will manage?
Are you struggling with your new role as parent and experiencing conflict with your partner?
Are you feeling disconnected or frustrated in your relationship?
We understand that individuals and couples can be challenged by a variety of issues relating to family dynamics, fertility and conception, pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period, and beyond.
New parenthood is a roller coaster of an experience that can send each partner into different directions and we know that relationship satisfaction often declines during those early post-partum days. Let us support you to overcome your differences, better adjust to the changes and improve your well-being so that you can work more effectively as a team to raise your baby, and yourselves!
We will help you to:
Improve communication, connection, intimacy, and conflict resolution with your partner and family
Process unresolved past issues or trauma that may be affecting you and your relationships
Better manage the adjustment into parenthood
Resolve confusion around changing roles and responsibilities
Process some of the losses related to parenthood
Deal with guilt and overhwhelm
Improve psychological health and well-being including perinatal depression and anxiety
Reduce and manage stress, anxiety and fatigue
Improve motivation, confidence and self esteem
Experiment with new ways of seeing your world and find ways to move forward
Build resilience and empowerment through self-exploration, self-knowledge and coping skills
Develop new insights to old problems and strategies to deal with current issues
“Sometimes we need that little bit of support to help you peel back the layers and process what’s going on beneath.”
Counselling is a process of understanding yourself and your life in order to make positive changes, achieve growth and gain fulfilment. The Parents Village offers a space for you to: explore and understand your feelings and behaviour, resolve emotional pain and gain insight into your relationships.
Sharing your experience in a safe and confidential space with one of our skilled counsellors can feel liberating, relieving and empowering. Research shows that accessing support early on can help you to explore, process and resolve your concerns, and confidently cope within your new role so that you can enjoy all the beauty that parenthood has to offer.
At The Parents Village we use a variety of evidence based techniques to provide high quality therapeutic support and advice. Some of the these include:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Psychotherapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Interpersonal therapy
Behavioural activation
Mindfulness based techniques
Creative Therapy – This speciality incorporates the use of art, drama, music, movement, story telling, ritual and play into counselling. These creative approaches allow clients additional options for conveying and understanding their feelings, particularly in times when words are not enough.
To find out more or make a booking contact Lana.
Medicare rebates available.
Our Services
Body Image Support
Assisting you to improve your body image by exploring your feelings, perceptions and behaviours to enjoy a positive relationship with your body, self esteem and mental health.
Parenting Support
Helping families to better understand, connect, and work with each other, develop skills to better manage challenges, and strengthen the parent-child relationship.
A safe space to debrief, process, re-frame and release any discomfort, disappointment or trauma from your birth experience so that you can move forward.
Birth Debriefing
Supporting individuals and couples to gain insight and make positive changes by working through challenges that come with pregnancy, parenthood and relationships